Books in the Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics series

By analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, this book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases. Beyond bringing America strategic and security benefits, they influence power relations in the entire world.

Questions the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary international and global politics.

This book uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring of world politics. The implications of these themes are discussed using a wide range of postcolonial readings and critiques.

Discusses contribution of various philosophers and thinkers whose ideas have permeated international relations theory. This book presents an introduction to the contemporary debates regarding theories and methodologies that are used to study international relations, particularly the relationships between interpretive accounts of social action.

Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.

Drawing on Iran's history and its relations with great powers and regional neighbours, this book addresses the question of how much continuity and/or change there is in Iranian international relations since the Iranian revolution.

Kai He and his contributors debate the reasons for this contested multilateralism and the impacts it will have on the region's security and political challenges.

Human security is an important subject for the whole world. This book traces the key evolutions in the development of the concept of human security, the various definitions and critiques, how it relates to other concepts, and what it implies for polities, politics, and policy. It also focuses on its implications for analysis and action.

Focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order. This book examines if the absence of a superpower status would lead to anarchy. It addresses the possibility of re-examining and redefining the nineteenth century classical balance of power.

Demonstrates the diverse responses to globalization, within, and between, Western Europe and East and Southeast Asia. This book presents empirical findings that help decide between arguments about the public impact of globalization cross-nationally.

Clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transformation. Applicable to peacebuilders, this book highlights positive examples of women's peacebuilding in comparative international contexts.

Explores the roles of national actors within international organizations, with emphasis on the collaborative approach adopted by Nordic governments. Analyzing Nordic regional cooperation within international organizations, this book covers the politics of alignment and distinct macro-regional identity-building in international arenas.

Examines how the Holocaust has impacted on ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This book explains the rise of the Holocaust as a process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved. It is useful for students and researchers of the Holocaust and genocide.

Focusing on transnational regionalism, this book examines the trajectory and crossing over of the three strands of scholarly analysis concerned with globalization and social policy, global social governance reform and regional integration studies

Shows how foreign policy is about values rather than interests and why ethics play a central role. This book develops a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy and analyzes the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. It is of interest to students and researchers of foreign policy formation and politics.

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Investigates the crisis management mechanism - mediation by third parties to determine the effectiveness of mediation efforts in crisis negotiations. This work examines three approaches to mediation: facilitation communication between parties; formulating possible agreements; and manipulating the parties through sanctions or rewards.

Developing the concept of Urbicide - the deliberate destruction of cities - this title outlines a theoretical understanding of the urban condition at stake in such violence. It argues that it is necessary to address the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings as a distinct form of political violence.

Since the declaration of human rights, the language of international relations has come to incorporate the language of justice and injustice. This book argues that if justice is to become the governing principle of international politics, then liberals must recognise that their political preferences cannot be the preconditions of global ethics.

Presents a study that brings together renowned academics to provide an insight into the theory and practice of state-building. This text addresses both the theoretical logic behind state-building and key practical manifestations of this phenomenon. It is aimed at scholars of international relations, comparative politics and political theory.

This book offers a systematic overview of all crises and conflicts in and among states since 1945 and traces the global trends of conflict development.

In the ROUTLEDGE ADVANCES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICS series, this work examines the ontology of agency and the structure in the international system and derives a theoretical framework for the empirical analysis of international relations from these ontological considerations.

Examines the fight of large European states, against terrorism and drugs.

Explores the governance of the global, the international, the regional and other extra-domestic spaces. This book offers interdisciplinary explorations of such issues as international peacekeeping, refugees, political rationalities of security and neoliberalism, the spatiality of globalization, and the ethical governance of corporate activity.

This volume shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.